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postmodern

German, adjective/ˈpɔstmoˌdɛʁn/

postmodern is spelled P-O-S-T-M-O-D-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 102,515th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Postmodern is a German adjective meaning “postmodern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf die Postmoderne bezogen, zur Postmoderne gehörend”.

What does postmodern mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    postmodern

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. auf die Postmoderne bezogen, zur Postmoderne gehörend 2. auf die Moderne folgend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of postmodern

  • postmoderner masculine nominative singular
  • postmoderne feminine nominative singular
  • postmodernes neuter nominative singular
  • postmodernen genitive masculine singular
  • postmodernem dative masculine singular
  • der postmoderne definite includes-article masculine
  • die postmoderne definite feminine includes-article
  • das postmoderne definite includes-article neuter
  • die postmodernen definite includes-article nominative
  • des postmodernen definite genitive includes-article
  • der postmodernen definite feminine genitive
  • dem postmodernen dative definite includes-article
  • den postmodernen dative definite includes-article
  • am postmodernsten superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce postmodern?

  • /ˈpɔstmoˌdɛʁn/
  • [ˈpɔstmoˌdɛʁn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to postmodern

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is postmodern in German?

postmodern appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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